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The facts will promptly blunt his ardor.—CAECILIUS STATIUS, The Changeling
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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.—DARWIN, Descent of Man
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Facts and Figures! Put 'em down!—DICKENS, The Chimes
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God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.—THOMAS H. HUXLEY
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The healthy human intellect will never believe that the same proposition may be true for faith and untrue in fact.—DEAN INGE
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Facts are apt to alarm us more than the most dangerous principles.—JUNIUS
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A single fact is worth a ship-load of argument.—Proverb
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There is no adding to fundamentals.—Proverb
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I am inclined to think that if a question as serious as going to war were presented to our nation we would demand facts unvarnished by interpretation. Whether we, even in our free democracy, could obtain them is another matter.—ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
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Seems, madam! Nay, it is; I know not seems.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
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As the old hermit of Prague, that never saw pen and ink, very wittily said to a niece of King Gorboduc, "That that is, is."—SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night
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Don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.—SYDNEY SMITH, Lady Holland's Memoir
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Facts are stubborn things.—SMOLLETT, Translation of Gil Bias
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It is as fatal as it is cowardly to blink facts because they are not to our taste.—JOHN TYNDALL, Fragments of Science
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The fact can't be no longer disguised that a Krysis is onto us.—ARTEMUS WARD, The Crisis
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Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.—WHISTLER, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
